From the category archives:

Law Enforcement

Justice for Johannes Mehserle – Reason Magazine

July 14, 2010

Radley Balko, as usual, gets it right on the trial and verdict of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle: Early in the morning of January 1, 2009, in a now infamous incident captured on video by dozens of cell phones and replayed across the globe, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Officer Johannes Mehserle shot and [...]

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They came all the way from Canada

December 8, 2009

More than 1,000 of them – to pay their final respects to four officers from the Lakewood, Washington Police Department, who were killed in the line of duty just over a week ago. Sergeant Mark Renninger Officer Tina Griswold Officer Ronald Owens Officer Greg Richards RIP.

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Washington Post: Target

January 29, 2006

From today’s Washington Post, presented without comment, but with a large smile: When arson investigators in Houston needed help restoring a damaged surveillance tape to identify suspects in a fatal fire, they turned first to local experts and then to NASA. With no luck there, investigators appealed to the owner of one of the most [...]

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A pledge from the Democrats

December 24, 2005

Over at Power Line, John asks: Do we have the Democrats’ pledge that under a Democratic administration, the government would not use radiation-detecting equipment to search for dirty bombs? If so, that should make it a lot easier for millions of Americans to cast their votes in the 2008 election. Likewise, I’d like to hear [...]

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NSA Wiretap Program

December 22, 2005

Of the many legal analyses of the NSA’s wiretap program that I’ve read – at least the ones actually written by lawyers – John @ Power Line Blog appears to have the best breakdown of the legality of this program that I’ve seen: There is no mystery about the legality of the NSA intercept program. [...]

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So?

December 22, 2005

Today’s New York Times has this story about police surveillance of protest groups and activists: Undercover New York City police officers have conducted covert surveillance in the last 16 months of people protesting the Iraq war, bicycle riders taking part in mass rallies and even mourners at a street vigil for a cyclist killed in [...]

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Speaking of renditions and assassinations

December 21, 2005

Bubblehead writes of Germany’s release of Mohammed Ali Hamadi: I have a new standard by which I’ll measure the success or failure of the current Administration: whether or not this scumbag is still breathing in January 2009. Chapomatic makes pretty much all the points I’d make about the Germans freeing Mohammed Ali Hamadi, murderer of [...]

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Froggy: Eavesdropping on the Cowards

December 20, 2005

I haven’t had the time or the right mindset yet to dig into the legal arguments surrounding the New York Time’s disclosure of the NSA Wiretaps of some US Citizens thought to be connected to Al-Qaeda, but I did enjoy this little tirade from Froggy: So essentially what the liberals are saying is that the [...]

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